476 AD Is Wrong. Here's When Rome Actually Fell

Rome didn't fall in 476 AD. It ended in 410. The empire just spent 66 years pretending it hadn't. Most history wants to count the years of decline for you. The question this channel keeps coming back to is different. I want to know what people stop believing — because that's the clock that actually matters. For 800 years, Rome had been militarily inviolate. Not because the Salarian Gate couldn't…